Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT)

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I was reading this:

http://add.about.com/od/relatedconditio ... -Tempo.htm

According to the article, this is usually associated with the inattentative subtype of ADHD, but wiki says it can occur almost as often in the combined type as well:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037%2Fa0023961

This makes more sense. I was diagnosed with the combined subtype of ADHD at age 5, but many of those issues you mention have been longstanding issues for me. I've had:

"frequent daydreaming"
"tendency to become confused easily": this can sometimes get weird, like last weekend, when my mum was talking about food she was planning to make in the next few days. I was pacing around, muttering words to myself under my breath, while listening. I started to say the word "olive" to myself over and over again and then I started to think, "That's odd. Olives don't really seem to go with the rest of the food. Why is mum preparing them?" Then I thought, "Wait, wasn't I the one saying 'olives' and not her?" I was really uncertain at this point, so I asked mum if she had mentioned olives, and she seemed a bit surprised by their mention and after a second responded "no." I've been keeping an eye out for this more often, and I've been catching it a lot.
"mental fogginess": can sometimes get almost painful, like there's a toxic, hot chemical plant in my head belching hot fumes
"sluggish-lethargic behavior"
"drowsiness": often present
"frequent staring into space": sometimes when I'm in thought, all my thoughts will suddenly leave me, leaving my head empty and me staring into space
"slow processing of information": if I have to clean, all the stuff looks like it's just shapes and colors until I sit and look at it;also, I have to frequently ruminate on conversations in order to get a good understanding of what was said
"poor memory retrieval": after my thoughts leave me, I have difficulty getting them back; also, I've frequently had the feeling that I've forgotten something, but cannot recall it. Often cannot remember to do something, like when I was leaving to go on a walk and my dad asked me to take something that was for sale from the top of the driveway (by the street) back down to the bottom (by the garage), a very easy task. I was like, OK, let's do this as I left the door, but by the time I got to the top of the driveway (within like 15 seconds) I had completely forgot and when I came back and saw that it was placed by the garage by my father, I felt bitter.
"social passiveness, reticence and withdrawal": At times I can be intrusive, though most of the time I am preoccupied with my internal thoughts and tend toward isolation.

I imagine there's a boatload of others on here with these issues. For each one of you, speak thy mind!

EDIT: This is also confirmed by (somewhat old) tests I underwent as a kid, where even though my intelligence was mostly good, I had slow processing speed. When I was 12 1/2, I was accurate but slow on the Cancellation of Figures Task.

I purchased the article and found the relevant statement: "And of those falling in the Combined subset of ADHD, 65% also had SCT. "

described me when I was younger. and to a certain extent, in the present, as well.

I never heard of SCT before. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid but it got latter changed to ADD which is the nonhyper. I'm diagnosed with dyslexia as well so I thought alot of the SCT issues were due to the combination. I'll have to look more into SCT one day. I would like to add that all those symptoms of SCT can be caused or made worse by medication; all those things were worse for me when I was on psych meds & even thou I've been off them for 5 years those things are worse than they were before the meds.

here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7X6uhgB4E[/youtube]

I'm dx with ADD (or also called ADHD-I), but according to Barkley I would have SCT. But I still think that ADHD and SCT are somehow related. I was hypoactive as a child and daydreaming BUT my brother was the opposite and extremly hyperactive.
My cousin, she has two children with the exact same combination, one child is extremly hyperactive and the one is hypoactive.
Maybe that's just a coinsidence, but I'm not really convinced by that.

here another longer video about SCT vs. ADHD:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR_rohjoCG4[/youtube]

He mentions that the hyperactivity of ADHD means you are highly engaging, but I'm not sure this is completely true. When I was in school, I was noted to have social withdrawal. In addition, when I was in preschool, I was noted to get up and wander about the classroom and throw tantrums when the wandering was interfered with. That's not exactly very social or engaging, either.

Eh... that explains me now... then again I always but it down the lack of sleep, explains a bit of childhood.